Hulk Hogan arm-wrestled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford -- and lost [VIDEO]

The two battled it out to kick off the Fan Expo in Canada. The allegedly crack-smoking mayor beat the semi-retired wrestler, and various videos of the event immediately went viral.

The arm-wrestling match spread through social media with the help of Gawker, who published widely on previous videos of both celebrities.

Hogan is in an ongoing legal battle with Gawker over its publication of an article that used an excerpt from a sex tape featuring Hogan and the wife of his best friend, radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge.

Although Gawker had to remove the clip, the gossip blog maintained its right to "publish true things about public figures" and kept the narrative description of the tape in the article, which discussed celebrity sex tapes more broadly.

The source of the alleged recording was later arrested during a raid on an alleged crack house. Separately, the house was broken into and two individuals were assaulted, reportedly in connection with the tape.

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